William II's speech on board the battleship Wörth evoked harsh responses from the official British press. In connection with the so-called “Wörth incident”, criticism began to be heard in British circles, and after the First World War in German ones, condemning the use of battle sites for the names of German ships, although many French ships bore the names of foreign cities on board, walls of which successful battles took place for them. For example, the French battleship Jena, which exploded in 1907 due to self-ignition of ammunition. Exactly the same order existed in the British Navy. Thus, at one time, British ships bore the names “Hog”, “Aboukir”, “Trafalgar”, etc. Sharp criticism of the Kaiser’s speech by the official British press showed that even then the gradual deterioration of relations between Great Britain and France in relation to Germany.